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Robert Ashley

“eL/Aficionado”, by Robert Ashley, on Vimeo. At the end of October, a new production of eL/Aficionado”, an opera by the late American composer Robert Ashley, written in 1987 and last performed in 1995, premiered at Roulette Intermedium, a Brooklyn-based space dedicated to avant-garde music and performing arts. This new production…

Philip Glass

Glass’s Symphony 13, will premiere in March. Philip Glass‘s Symphony No. 13 now has a date for its world premiere: originally scheduled for the 2020-2021 season at the National Arts Centre (NAC) in Ottawa (Canada), the covid-19 pandemic made it impossible for it to be programmed at the venue that…

Rachel Portman

Lifetime achievement prize for Rachel Portman. English composer Rachel Portman (Haslemere, 1960) will be the first female composer to receive the Soundtrack Cologne Festival‘s Lifetime Achievement Award. The award ceremony will take place tomorrow, Saturday 20 November, at the Cologne Chamber of Commerce, at the closing ceremony of the 18th…

Roberto Sierra

Roberto Sierra, Grammy for Best Classic Work. Last night in Las Vegas, the names of the winning artists and winning works of the  Latin Grammy Awards were revealed. The award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition/Work finally went to the album Music from Cuba and Spain, Sierra: Sonata for Guitar by…

Lucerne Forward Festival

Tribute to Andriessen at the Forward festival. The veteran Lucerne Festival, founded in 1938, has so far included the Summer Festival and the Mendelssohn Festival, and this weekend adds, for the first time, the three-day Forward Festival of contemporary music. Opening tomorrow Friday at 22:00 at the Lucerne Congress and…

Giorgio Battistelli

Giorgio Battistelli, Golden Lion of La Biennale. The Board of Directors of the Venice La Biennale, at the proposal of Lucia Ronchetti, Director of the Music Biennale, has decided to award its highest musical prize, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, to Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli (Albano Laziale, 1953), one…

Latin Grammys

Latin Grammy nominees for modern classical. The 22nd annual Latin Grammy Awards ceremony of the Latin Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (LARAS) will take place this Thursday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. In the category of Best Contemporary Classical Work/Composition, the five nominees are as…

Tomás Jesús Ocaña

Ocaña wins the Jóvenes Compositores Award. The young Spanish composer Tomás Jesús Ocaña (Málaga, 1999) has won the 32nd edition of the Premio Jóvenes Compositores Fundación SGAE-CNDM 2021 jointly organised by the Fundación SGAE and the Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical (CNDM), the final of which took place yesterday in…

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Stockhausen, at the Festival d’Automne in Paris. Tomorrow night, the Festival d’Automne in Paris offers a single performance of two of the acts of Donnerstag aus Licht (Thursday, of Light), the second in the cycle of seven operas Licht: die sieben Tage der Woche (Light: the seven days of the…

“Iphigenia”

Wayne Shorter premieres his opera “Iphigenia”. Two American jazz figures from very different generations, the saxophonist Wayne Shorter (Newark, New Jersey, 1933) and the singer and bassist Esperanza Spalding (Portland, Oregon, 1984), embarked eight years ago on a project that pushed the limits of everything they had ever done before:…

Morada Sónica

The ninth edition of Morada Sónica begins. The Andalusian city of Almería hosts from today, Friday, the ninth edition of the Morada Sónica International Festival, which will be held over the next two weekends, on 12 and 13 and 19 and 20 November. The festival begins today, Friday, at 20:00,…

tAtUcErA Online

35th session of tAtUcErA Online lA tAtUcErA Online is a shared listening event organized by Chema Pastor and J.G. Entonado to promote experimental music recordings and free improvisation. It has been taking place since April 2020 and is repeated every two Mondays, presenting a large number of albums of different…